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SQUEEZE IN 2027.
IS THE WORLD BECOMING TOO FULL?
Professor J. Arthur Thomson writes in "John o' London's Weekly"-
and Germany in 61.
Canada
was growing most rapidly, and would double in 24 years, with an annual increase of nearly 30 per thousand,
Which Colour La Gaining Ground?
There is no doubt as to the answer to this question: the In particular places, no doubt, White Race. With a population there are too many people for of 650 millions, the Whites of the readily available means of Europe or of European origin support. The result is some-are increasing at the rate of 7.8 times a struggle for existence millions per year, or 12 per far too keen to be good either thousand. With a population of for the individual or the stock. 420 millions, the Browns are in- Many of us must have seen vil-creasing at the rate of 1.05 mil lages in Europe where every eye lions per annum, or 2.5 per thou- we met spoke misery. It may sand." With & population of 510 be said, however, that the solu- millions, the Yellows are increas tion of this local over-population ing at the rate of 1.58 millions is to be found in trekking to the every year, or 3 per thousand. of 110 mil- unfilled parts of the earth, But With a population emigration is for many indivi- lions, the Blacks are increasing duals quite impossible without at the rate of a little over half State aid; some doers once open a million every year, or 5. per to the emigrant are now shut; thousand. there is no use in shifting people Including the non-European to an environment to which they Whites, a relatively small popu- are unadaptable; and behind lation of 60 millions, increasing these facts there looms the ques-nearly half a million a year, or tion: What if the earth as a 8 per thousand, the total comes out at 1,750 millions, increasing whole is becoming full?
by 11.41 millions per How Populations Grow, It is an impressive fact that It is not, dificult to understand the population of the globe has why the European. Whites are doubled since Malthus wrote his increasing so much more rapid- famous book. It is at presently than the others. It is be about 1,700,000,000 as against cause they have political control 858 millions in 1800! The aver of nine-tenths of the habitable age annual increase is at present earth and have the ability to use about 0.7 per cent.; the absolute with considerable efficiency the annual increase is estimated by lands they hold,
various authorities at from 12)
Looking Forward.
annum.
to 20 millions a year. The in- If the world-population goes crease goes on like compound in- on increasing at the present rate terest. It took mankind per-it will soon approach the limit haps half a million years to of subsistence. It is possible reach 850 millions in 1800; since that some bio-chemical discovery then the number has doubled. may alter the whole aspect of If this goes on at the same rate the problem, but this is only an the density of the world-popula-off-chance. What is probable is tion will soon approach the that the rate of increase will fall saturation-point.
as the density approaches the
The question is how many saturation-point, but it is for people can the earth comfortably scientific foresight to prevent an approximate either the setting in of terrible support, and answer has been arrived at by debacles of war, famine, and the statistical agriculturists. pestilence, or the postponement For, after all, it is mainly a of stationariness until the condi- question of the plant-food the tions of life have become miser- carth can yield. Unless the ex-able. Is the stationariness to be ploitation of the sea has much that of China or that of France? wider limits than seem probable The desirable result is to reach to-day, the supply of fish-food à stationary population long be would not serve for long to keep fore the limits of subsistence are the wolf from, the world's door!| approached. This may come
Obviously, too, our beef
and about through a continued fall mutton, our milk and eggs, are of the birth-rate all round. In simply transformed plants; and almost all civilised peoples the everything comes back to the birth-rate is now steadily de- photo-synthesis that goes on in clining, and that way safety lies, every green leaf. As things are, and much more than safety the 60 per cent. of us are living on possibility of a reasonably happy grass, that is to say on some life. How the continued decline kind of cereal or other.
of the birth-rato may be best,. secured is another and very diffi- cult-question.
"Three Acres And a Cow." Now, apart from the Arctic Regions, the earth's surface ex- tends to 33,000 million acres, but only 40 per cent. of that is' arable. Thus mankind has some 13,000 million acres at its dis-i
EDITOR SHOT.
REPERCUSSION OF NATION-
ALIST SPLIT."
THE CHINA MAIL,
When police arrived at the |_ JAPANESE CLERK. scene in response to Wong's frantic appeal for help they found the editorial room in a state of disorders
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The recent investigations made A political feud which fared out was found the body of Sang Suey At the Justice Room, Guildhall, in Vancouver's Chinatown on with bullet wounds in his chest on August 22, before Mr. Alderman by Lt. Colonel Vedder into the August 8 last, claimed the lives of and head and a 38 calibre revolver Howell, Ejirio Matsunaga, 88, cancer situation in the Phillp-experts in Bobbing, three Chinese, two of whom were between his knees. Five car Japanese clerk in the employment pinas, and the study made by Dr.Shingling and Way- prominent among their country-tridges of the gun had been dis-of Mr. Zodik Sarch Cesar, a fur- Lopez Rizal and Dr. Guidote of Ing.
charged. men in the city. The dead are: Louie Man Ha, president and editor of the "Canada Morning News," city Chinese daily news, paper, and special commissioner of the Vancouver branch of the Nationalist League: Chinese Wong Park, typesetter and writer for the newspaper; and a Chinese believed to be Wong Sang-Buey of Kamloops, B.C..
Assassin Shot. Lying on the floor beside his desk in the other end of the small room, Man Ha was found breath- ing his last. Two bullets had passed through his head and the third through the left knee.
On the editor's desk police found an automatic pistol with one cartridge discharged. Man Police stated after investiga- Ha was found just as he had roll- ton that they believed the affair ed off his chair and police pre- was a direct result of the recent sume he was shot as he sat at his split in the ranks of the Nationaldeak, but not before he had drawn ist party. The authorities sald his platol and fired one shot at his they were informed that Louie assailant. Man Ha was seated in his office on As two bullets had entered the the mezzanine floor when Wong body of Sang Suey, police state
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Thirty-seven dificult climbs qualifying for badges were made by members of the Alpine Club of Canada during the first ten days of their annual camp in the upper Yaho Vailey in the Canadian Rockies recently. About one-third of the party were ladies. There was no attempt to make spectacular climbs, the intention of younger members in a the camp being to provide a good qualifying school for
Three Swise guides were loaned by the territory well adapted for such work. Canadian Pacific Railway and were suppleraented by experienced volunteer guides qualified for that purpose. N. E. Odell, who played a prominent part in the Mount Everest expedition, was among the party making the climb The photograph shows a long line of climbers headed by a guide ascending the edge of a morraine at Mount President.
Sang-suey entered about seven o'clock and requested to see the editor.
Wong Park, one of the dead men, was seated in the front office with Wong, a reporter, and Mak Yak-shee, a sub-editor. Suey was told to go upstairs,
which he did.
Sang
charged on remand with stealing be- the Philippine health service, tween October, 1926, and June, 1927, have disproved the belief that series of cheques for various cancer is an index of civilisa amounts; with the fraudulent con- tion, it was learned last Satur version of the proceeds; with the day at the Philippine health ser forgery of receipts and acknow- vice, reports the Herald." ledgments; and with the falsifica Although the significance of
tion of books of account.
the local cancer death rate, has
Mr. Abinger, prosecuting, sald been in dispute for a long time, the total amount in respect of which the defendunt was charged there are many who believe that was £606 11s. 6d, but he believed it is an index of civilisation. a much larger sum was involved The scientist Hoffman, ina in an ingenious scheme of fraud study of several thousand cases, which it was alleged Matsunagal made a weeping, statement to had carried out. As an example of the effect that native races not what was done-of a sum of £208 living in much contact with 10a, which the accused should have civilised conditions are but rare- paid Into his employer's bank, hely affected by this malignant only, in fact, paid in £8 108; the disease. fact that £200 had been atolen being concealed by various for- The recent investigation of
falsifications. geries and
Mr. Dr. Vedder made through ten Cesar had in this way been de- thousand autopsies of Filipinos frauded of several thousands of performed at the morgue of the pounds. The alteration and Philippine 'medical school since erasure of figures hud been 1907, shows that the death rate RO cleverly carried out that among Filipinos is no lower than they could scarcely be detected that in the registration area of without the aid of a magnifying the United States. A study by glass.
aame
Mr. Elkin, who defended, said Dr. Lopez Rizal and Dr. Guidote, this was a case in which obviously made of five thousand cases in complete Investigation was neces- Manila and the provinces, brings sary, and he did not therefore 'pro- one to substantially the pose to call any evidence at that conclusion. Theorists will find stage. Reallsing that the matter that human nature is essentially must go before another tribunal he the same all over the world, ac- merely advised his client at that cording to the bulletin. stage to plead "Not Guilty," and
reserve his defence.
The Alderman committed the defendant for trial, allowing him
out on bail.
NEW RESEARCH.
Rev. Father Mitchell, a Redemp- CANCER-PROOF DISCOVERY. torist Priest, who was on Penang, has left for Singapore.
visit to
supporting the "anti-Red" party which established its government at Nanking, entered court action some two months ago to remove Man Ha and his party from con- trol of the newspaper.
Experiments dealing with the production of immunity to cancer cells form the most interesting feature of the annual report of the British Empire Cancer Cam- paign, presented at its annual meeting held recently in London.
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Viscount Cave, who presided, said he felt that there was a The action failed, however, great army all over the world in and since that time considerable support of the work which they that they believe that the Chin- agitation has resulted in China- had undertaken. ese shot himself after being town over the split in the party. Sir Thomas Horder, moving the wounded in the chest. The wound Tremendous excitement was adoption of the report, said: in the Chinese's head was caused caused in Chinatown when Wong "There are apparent to us who by a bullet of 38 calibre police first ran excitedly to Constable are able to read the signs, more discovered.
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Long after the bodies of the radiological, immunological, and they heard a shot ring out and
victims had been removed, queues chemo-therapeutical." looked up to see Sang Suey taking Several theories of the cause of of Chinese filed past the door and ......
Experiments. aim with a revolver from above the shooting were advanced, gazed intently in until ordered by the railing fronting the mezza- Police officials stated that they the constable on guard to "move perimenter of the Lister In- Dr. Thomas Lumsden, the ex- nine floor.
believed the outbreak was aon." They started for the exital direct result of the civil strife in Police are continuing their in-stitute, has discovered that "when as many more as we are justified Motta, voiced the
The Swiss Federal President, M.
simultaneously and Wong and China,
vestigation and attempting to a tumor of one animal, such as a Yan Shee were successful in mak- of
They found that the split in clear up another mysterious angle rat, is inoculated into an animal in hoping for as practicable, Nations' thanks for Mracking their escape, Wong through the Nationalist ranks in China in the case which has developed. of different species, such as a the minimum that each of us feller's gift of a library to the the composing room at the back had spread to Vancouver, where With only six bullets fired from rabbit, the serum of this second could be doing with is 2.5 acres, value of ten million dollars and
and Yan Shee out the front door. the city branch had divided also, the two guns found at the scene, animal becomes highly poisonous without allowing any for a cow.stressed the vital importance of Dr. If this be a correct estimate Stresemann's recent declaration.
to flee a bullet from the assassin's munistic party which set up goved seven points of entry made by these can, under special con- As Wong Park rose and turned The faction supporting the Com-police believe they have discover to the rat tumor cells, so that if
arat has two tumors, one of] (and the experis have not ar
Berlin, Sept. 11.
gun struck him in the back.
ernment at Hankow gained con-gun fire. Six bullet wounds were rived at it hastily), then the American friends of the Langue
editorial room is a matter of paper and set up Louie Man Ha three men and a seventh hole, the rabbit's serum into it, and What transpired after in the trol of the daily Chinese news discovered in the bodies of the itions, be cured by infecting police deduction and conjecture, as its president and editor. thought to have been made by after this the second (the un- as both parties to the shooting Vexed at the action of the Com-bullet, was discovered in a desk treated) tumor always disap- are dead;
manistic supporters, the faction in the front business office.
GIFT TO LEAGUE.
posal. How many of these will] MR. ROCKEFELLER HEARTILY each individual require? With all the possibilities of modern agriculture at our command, and
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Lengue
total population that the earth of Nations placed two million dol- could support is about 5,200 millars to be used as a Library Fund, lions, and the appalling fact is at the disposal of the Council of that at the present rate of in-the League.—A.N.A. crease this vast total will be reached in little over a century, If this is a fact, it is one to give us pause!
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Arat so cured becomes.im- mune in every part of its body against the attacks of the tumor cells. The
It would have been reasonable to expect that the serum of this cured and now immune rat would; have killed the tumor cells if ap plied to them when grown in glass cell outside the body, but this was not the case, MED The cured rat was quite un damaged by the inoculations of the tumor cells, yet no trace could be found of the means by which It destroyed them.
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Dr. Lumsden has by patient work convinced himself of the cause of this apparent, anomaly, and It is hoped that this discovery will be of great help in elucidating the manner in which immunity is produced
If these researches can be con- |firmed, it is obvious," adds the re- port, that they may prove to be of outstanding importance in con- nection with the cancer pro
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